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Lead Hardware Design Validation Engineer

NVIDIA Santa Clara, CA On-site senior full-time

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Description

Join NVIDIA's groundbreaking team as a Lead Hardware Design Validation Engineer for our GPU, datacenter and automotive platforms in Santa Clara, CA! This role offers an outstanding opportunity to lead a team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in computing technology.

As a Lead Hardware Design Validation Engineer, you will be responsible for owning end-to-end product validation from architecture/design phase, through bring-up to mass production. You will set strategies, define test plans, and track progress to ensure the product meets spec and ships successfully.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading and mentoring design validation engineers
  • Guiding related validation teams (thermal, EMI, reliability, etc.) and partners (such as JDM) through the validation cycles
  • Representing design validation in executive and cross-functional product reviews and debug forums
  • Defining test plans across the full system based on product design
  • Managing manufacturing test approaches and contributing to production troubleshooting and boosting yield
  • Collaborating with and leading vendors and partners to complete validation activities
  • Driving system-level debugging and root cause analysis on complex issues spanning silicon, board, system, signal integrity, firmware, and software
  • Influencing product design through design review and validation/debug feedback

We are looking for a highly experienced and skilled individual who has a proven track record as a technical lead for a shipping hardware product. You should have strong system troubleshooting skills covering silicon, board, SI, firmware, OS, and applications.

If you are a motivated and results-driven individual who is passionate about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in computing technology, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Skills

Required

  • BS+ in EE/CE or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of related experience with a proven track record as a technical lead for a shipping hardware product
  • Strong system troubleshooting skills covering silicon, board, SI, firmware, OS, and applications
  • Hands-on experience with power validation, including PDN, power regulators, sequencing, telemetry, protection etc.
  • Expertise in high-speed IO functionality and electrical validation, such as PCIe, SerDes, Ethernet, USB, or display
  • Proficient in low-speed IO functionality and electrical validation, including I2C, SPI, UART, JTAG, SMBus, reference clock, etc.

Nice to have

  • Datacenter platform experience: high-density/rack-scale power, liquid cooling (CDU, manifolds, leak detection), manageability (BMC) etc.
  • Proven capability in managing or technically leading a team of validation engineers
  • Able and willing to travel internationally (primarily to Asia mfg sites such as Taiwan, China mainland etc.), up to 8% during NPI peak, to support builds
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